]]>The Guiding Star Project is excited to announce formal relationships with several prominent Fertility Care and Natural Family Planning organizations.

SymptoPro Fertility Education from Northwest Family Services, headquartered in Portland, OR

Couple to Couple League International, headquartered in Cincinnati, OH

FEMM Health, headquartered in New York, NY

FACTS about Fertility, headquartered in Washington, DC

Natural Womanhood, headquartered in San Antonio, TX

These organizations have joined with the Guiding Star Project in a goodwill partnership to increase education and access to resources and materials concerning fertility and natural family planning for women and families.

“We are thrilled to be able to offer women options and information about their fertility,’ said Leah Jacobson, Founder of the Guiding Star Project, ‘Women’s bodies are amazing. Their natural processes should be celebrated and not suppressed. Guiding Star is committed to empowering women to embrace their natural abilities and these partnerships are a huge step in that direction.’

While the organizations who are partnering with Guiding Star all approach fertility care using different methods, they are united around the idea that women can have both choice and freedom with respect to their fertility without sacrificing their health, or denying their bodies’ natural functions.

]]>919Mommy Fitness Funhttps://guidingstartampa.org/zumba/
https://guidingstartampa.org/zumba/#respondThu, 01 Sep 2016 13:37:46 +0000https://guidingstartampa.org/?p=933Join us for Mommy Fitness Fun with a certified instructor! Be sure to bring your carrier and a transparent (or thin) scarf or blanket if you baby is still little.

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https://guidingstartampa.org/art-as-therapy/#respondTue, 30 Aug 2016 13:45:21 +0000https://guidingstartampa.org/?p=936Pregnant and new mommies: Enjoy some peaceful time for yourself! Child watch is provided for your toddlers. Second and fourth Thursdays from 11am – 12pm.

]]>https://guidingstartampa.org/art-as-therapy/feed/0936Mommy Support Grouphttps://guidingstartampa.org/mommy-support-group-meeting/
Mon, 15 Aug 2016 20:41:48 +0000https://www.guidingstartampa.org/?p=277English group meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays at 11 am Download English Topics Spanish group meets on the 2 and 4th Wednesdays at 11 am Download Spanish Topics Register Here We had 19 mommies come for one of our Mommy Support Group meetings. A full house!! [fts facebook id=236258069736805 album_id=969039773125294 type=album_photos image_width=250px […]

]]>277Guiding Star Tampa in the Newshttps://guidingstartampa.org/guiding-star-tampa-in-the-news/
Thu, 13 Aug 2015 14:14:14 +0000https://www.guidingstartampa.org/?p=568TAMPA, Fla. — Ana Hidalgo Stooks remembers the day when she looked into another mother’s eyes and realized she made the right call to expand her pregnancy-resource center and offer women the comprehensive, life-affirming services they are not getting at Planned Parenthood. “She was telling me over and over, ‘I’m just going to have an […]

]]>TAMPA, Fla. — Ana Hidalgo Stooks remembers the day when she looked into another mother’s eyes and realized she made the right call to expand her pregnancy-resource center and offer women the comprehensive, life-affirming services they are not getting at Planned Parenthood.

“She was telling me over and over, ‘I’m just going to have an abortion,’” Stooks, the executive director of Guiding Star Tampa in Florida, told the Register. “This was a woman who you would never think of as abortion-minded or abortion-vulnerable.”

She was very involved at the pro-life center, attending their new relationship classes, but she had a newborn baby and was shocked to learn she was pregnant again.

Thankfully, Stooks’ Life Choices Women’s Care, offering Guiding Star’s “holistic vision” for women’s fertility care, allowed this woman and her husband a welcoming space to discuss the pregnancy, choose life and get the care they needed.

“I keep thinking to myself that if we hadn’t been there throughout the first pregnancy and now the second, she would have been in line to get an abortion,” Stooks said. Today, the woman and her husband are “so proud of their little boy.”